Articles About Justice Wainwright

Dale Wainwright, Republican incumbent, for Texas Supreme Court Justice: In 2002, Wainwright and Jefferson became the first African-American justices of the state's highest court. His decisions have been solidly conservative, and at the same time, he has made diversity of the Republican Party his personal mission.

Justice Wainwright graduated from Howard University (summa cum laude) in 1983 and earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988. He also studied at the London School of Economics.

Incumbent Dale Wainwright is clearly the better man for this job. He understands his role as judge-the-interpreter not judge-the-legislator and, despite allegations that the Supreme Court has a considerable backlog, the court he served on issued the highest number of opinions of any court this century during the last fiscal year.

Most Texans make sure they know their children's teachers before sending them to school. Most learn about their doctors before entrusting their health to them. We seek information about these professionals because they can impact our lives. Likewise, every Texan should make a point to learn about the judges elected to the bench.

Wainwright is the incumbent Republican. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School in 1988, he was first elected to the court in 2002. Wainwright previously held a Harris County civil district court bench — appointed by then-Gov. George W. Bush — a position in which he earned high marks from attorneys.

The SFA Department of Government presented a lecture Monday by Texas Supreme Court Justice Dale Wainwright, who explained the responsibilities of the court and extolled the virtues of the Texas legal system.

It used to be that a state judicial seat was safe from election to election -- once a judge, always a judge. But that truism may no longer necessarily hold, three Texas Supreme Court justices told the Midland County Republican Women's Club Wednesday at Midland Country Club.

Wainwright has indeed fulfilled his teacher's prediction. On Jan. 6, 2003, at age 41, he was sworn in as a Texas Supreme Court justice by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "That's not too bad for a country boy from a small town of 2,000 people, I suppose," said Wainwright, who is the second African-American to serve on Texas' highest civil court.